Division I Women

Oregon Wins First MPSF Regular Season Title

from press release

EUGENE, Ore. - The University of Oregon closed
out Senior Day with a 13-8 victory over Denver to clinch the
program's first regular season title on Saturday at Pape' Field
behind a season-high four goals from senior Kristina Barrett.

With the win, Oregon goes into the MPSF Tournament as the No. 1
seed and will face the No. 4 seed California on Friday (Apr. 27) at
4:30 p.m. at Cagan Stadium in Stanford, Calif. The Ducks also
earned the right to host next year's MPSF Tournament on their new
field.

Senior Jess Drummond committed a foul on Jenn Etzel less than two
minutes into the match, setting up Etzel to score Denver's first
goal of the match off a free position shot.

The match, which was very physical, amassed 45 fouls between both
squads, with Denver having the most at 24. In addition to lots of
fouls, there were plenty of turnovers to go around as Oregon was
the leader in that category with 17 and Denver added 14.

After the Pioneers took the early lead, Barrett came back and tied
the match up for the Ducks on goal No. 25 of the season.

The Ducks had a hard time coming up with draw controls during the
match and Kara Secora's goal at 23:32 was an example of what the
Pioneers were able to do when they came up with the draws, moving
the match to 2-1.

Oregon was able to answer with three of the match's next four goals
to go ahead 4-3 though.

UO did not stop there as Barrett and senior Jana Drummond added two
more goals to give the Ducks a 6-3 advantage with 12:40 to go in
the first half.

Ja. Drummond turned the ball over on the next possession for UO and
Mikayla Clark was able to capitalize on it and tally another Denver
goal to put the Pioneers within two, 6-4.

Sophomore Nikki Puszcz came up with the draw control after the goal
and after Kate Henrich fouled, Oregon was able to set up their
offense.

On the play sophomore Shannon Propst hit Barrett and the Ducks were
able to take a 7-4 lead into the half.

Coming out of the half Cailie Murphy checked Ja. Drummond hard, but
Ja. Drummond got back up and nailed the free position shot, giving
Oregon a four-goal lead.

The teams traded goals with the Ducks pushing ahead eventually 12-7
with less than 10 minutes left in the match.

The Pioneers attempted to make a run firing three straight shots at
sophomore Caroline Federighi, but Federighi was dominate in goal
for the Ducks registering saves on all three of the shots.

Junior Bridget Morrison fouled after Federighi's last save at 5:24
on that performance, allowing the Pioneers to tally their first
goal after they went 13 minutes without a goal off a free position
goal by Sonorah Vinyard.

The Ducks notched their last goal of the match at 3:14 after
Barrett found Puszcz to seal up the 13-8 victory.

In addition to Barrett's four goals, she added two assists for a
match-high six points. The Ducks also received three goals from
Puszcz and two each from Ja. Drummond and Je. Drummond.

Federighi played all 60 minutes in goal and recorded a match-high
12 saves on 22 faced shots while allowing eight goals, moving her
season record to 12-3.

Denver's Etzel and Clark both tallied two goals each while Ashley
Harman (11-2) was credited with the loss.

Today's loss was only Denver's second of the season, breaking a
12-match win streak, since a season-opening loss to Johns
Hopkins.

MATCH NOTES:

Oregon now has a program-high seven wins with their first perfect
MPSF record...The Ducks have now recorded 12 wins three times in
program history (2007, 2009, 2012)...Kristina Barrett has tallied
four goals on three occasions this season...Jana Drummond recorded
a season-high six groundballs...Oregon has won three of the last
five matches against Denver...Oregon leader in goals scored, Jana
Drummond now has 144...Kristina Barrett has 74 career assists, only
one shy of tying Theresa Waldron...Jana Drummond and Kristina
Barrett are in fourth and fifth place, respectively in points
scored with 176 and 163...Caroline Federighi, still in third place
in saves, has 201...Jana Drummond takes over fifth place in ground
balls with 94...Jana Drummond moved into the top five on the
single-season draw controls list with 43.